Some of my browsers stopped working at noon after a scan by my Microsoft Forefront security program. The gist of the message was that it detected a piece of malware called PWS:Win32/Zbot.

Apparently Microsoft had identified this and scanned for it in the past but was scanning for it wrong, the detection formula was incorrect. I think. Here's a page about this bot that doesn't include a mea culpa but it apparently is implied.

It scanned the computer, blocked the file, and part of the "fix" was to uninstall my Chrome browser application. I scanned for a couple of the file names and don't find them in my system, so they evidently didn't make it into the registry. I don't know if it was active or simply lodged somewhere, or if this deleted a harmless file with a similar name.

Anyone else get this kind of search result? I find it particularly annoying because I have been updating my passwords to be more secure, and it looks like I'll have to go update them all.

SRS